Results 921-940 of 4,350 for speaker:Bobby Aylward
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Bobby Aylward: I am just asking the witnesses for their opinion from an operational cost point of view.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Bobby Aylward: I understand that. It is up to us here in Dáil Eireann to change the rules. I am asking the witnesses because I have asked the Minister. I have even asked my party to make it part of the confidence and supply arrangement. I am looking for a solution for the small number of students who are excluded. I know it is unfair to ask the witnesses as they are only implementing the laws we...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services Provision (13 Dec 2018)
Bobby Aylward: 123. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the impending retirements of general practitioners at medical centres (details supplied); his plans to ensure that services do not diminish due to possible delays in securing replacement general practitioners; his plans to ensure the recruitment campaign for these specific medical centres is adequate in securing the...
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Security (12 Dec 2018)
Bobby Aylward: 140. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the report into the circumstances surrounding the escape of a prisoner (details supplied) requested for by his predecessor following the stabbing of two prison officers in Tallaght hospital in February 2018; if the report will be made available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52359/18]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Post Office Closures (11 Dec 2018)
Bobby Aylward: The dismantling of the rural post office network continues across the country. We lost two important post offices in south Kilkenny at Mullinavat and Glenmore, and another is to close within the next two months at Kilmoganny. This follows the retirement of two long-serving postmasters who gave many years of dedicated service to their respective communities. Despite significant community...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Post Office Closures (11 Dec 2018)
Bobby Aylward: I knew he would come back with that.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Post Office Closures (11 Dec 2018)
Bobby Aylward: That is not an answer. The Minister's job is to rule on what is being done now.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Post Office Closures (11 Dec 2018)
Bobby Aylward: He is closing more post offices than ever. He must be happy.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Post Office Closures (11 Dec 2018)
Bobby Aylward: The Minister must agree the Government is closing post offices.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Post Office Closures (11 Dec 2018)
Bobby Aylward: I have proof of it.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Post Office Closures (11 Dec 2018)
Bobby Aylward: He is dressing it up.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Post Office Closures (11 Dec 2018)
Bobby Aylward: Then be honest about it.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Post Office Closures (11 Dec 2018)
Bobby Aylward: The Minister is just getting angry and it is obvious he is getting angry because I am getting under his skin. He knows I am talking fact. To talk about what Fianna Fáil did years ago is not the Minister's job; his job is to rule as Minister now and to make decisions now. Why would old postmasters and postmistresses who are in their 60s, 70s and 80s not take the package? Of course,...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Post Office Closures (11 Dec 2018)
Bobby Aylward: He keeps going back to the one thing.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Post Office Closures (11 Dec 2018)
Bobby Aylward: Where is the report on sustainability?
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Post Office Closures (11 Dec 2018)
Bobby Aylward: Where is the report on sustainability?
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Post Office Closures (11 Dec 2018)
Bobby Aylward: 41. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development his plans to ensure the viability and sustainability of towns and villages in rural Ireland that have lost or are losing the local post office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51864/18]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Post Office Closures (11 Dec 2018)
Bobby Aylward: I want to ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development his plans to ensure the viability and sustainability of towns and villages in rural areas that have lost or are due to lose their local post office. It is not just a case of post offices. There has been a general decline in rural areas with the closure of public houses, post offices and Garda barracks. Rural Ireland is in...
- Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: LEADER Programmes Administration (11 Dec 2018)
Bobby Aylward: 50. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he is satisfied that the application process for community groups applying to LEADER is efficient and that the process is not discouraging groups from making an application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51863/18]
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Jobs Data (11 Dec 2018)
Bobby Aylward: 83. To ask the Taoiseach the additional jobs added in the 12 months to Q3 2018 in County Kilkenny from the latest labour force survey. [50507/18]